tort, n.m., wrong, harm, injury, hurt; mischief, offense; prejudice, detriment. Faire — à quelqu’un; to wrong any one. Réparer le — qu’on a fait; to repair the wrong one has done. Se faire —; to injure one’s self. Avoir —; to be wrong, to be in the wrong. Donner — à quelqu’un; to decide against any one. Mettre quelqu’un dans son —; to leave (a person) no loophole, no excuse. À —; wrong, wrongly, wrongfully, injuriously. Il parle à — et à travers; he speaks at random, thoughtlessly. À — et à droit; at random. À — ou à droit, à — ou à raison; rightly or wrongly. Être dans son —; to be in the wrong. Se mettre dans son —; to put one’s self in the wrong.
tortelle, n.f., hedge-mustard. V. vélar.
torticolis, n.m., wry-neck, stiff neck; crick (in the neck); (fig.) hypocrite, canter.
tortil, n.m., (her.) a baron’s wreath.
*tortillage, n.m., rigmarole, embarrassed language, shuffling.
*tortille or tortillère, n.f., serpentine or winding walk.
*tortillé, -e, adj., twisted, wreathed.
*tortillement, n.m., twisting, twist; wrench; (fig.) shifting, shuffling, shift, evasion.
*tortiller, v.a., to twist, to wriggle, to waddle. Il n’y a pas à —; (fig.) it must be done; there is no shuffling out of it. — bien de la fourchette; to tuck in, to lay to. Il tortille en marchant; he waddles along.
*se tortiller, v.r., to wriggle, to writhe.